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Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (/ ˈ æ d l eɪ /; February 5, 1900 – July 14, 1965) was an American politician and diplomat and who was the United States ambassador to the United Nations from 1961 until his death in 1965.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson III (October 10, 1930 – September 6, 2021) was an American attorney and politician from Illinois. A member of the Democratic Party , he served as a member of the United States Senate from 1970 to 1981.
The 1952 United States presidential election in Mississippi took place on November 4, 1952, as part of the United States presidential election of 1952.The Democratic Party candidate, Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, won the state of Mississippi over Dwight D. Eisenhower, the former Supreme Allied Commander Europe and General of the Army by a margin of 59,600 votes, or 20.88 percentage points.
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From March 11 to June 5, 1956, voters of the Democratic Party chose its nominee for president in the 1956 United States presidential election.Former Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections [1] and caucuses culminating in the 1956 Democratic National Convention held from August 13 to August 17, 1956, in Chicago, Illinois. [2]
[10] South Carolina was ultimately won by Stevenson and running mate Alabama Senator John Sparkman, with 50.72 percent of the popular vote, against Columbia University President Dwight D. Eisenhower (R–New York) and California Senator Richard Nixon, with 49.28 percent of the popular vote.
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Eisenhower carried New York with 55.45% of the vote to Stevenson's 43.55%, a victory margin of 11.90%. New York weighed in for this election as 1% more Republican than the national average. [ 3 ] Eisenhower proved to be very popular in many of the Northern and Mid-West States, and took nearly every county in the State of New York, with the ...